There's a brand new layout of Sunken Treasure, which looks beautiful and has earned the Second Edition designation. A ton of readers have sent feedback about Sunken Treasure, and some common themes have emerged: 1. You like the stories. This makes me so happy I want to do the Snoopy dance. 2. T...

With the old pull-down list, it was click, scroll, click. Now it's click, click, click. At the very easiest it was move my mouse to the comic suggested by the current comic, and click.
This is better how, exactly?
Oh, right - it's not. It's change for change's sake. Just like Dilbert. Well, after two weeks of that crap, including not being able to view Flash movies because the programming idiots were checking for browser/OS, so because I use Linux and not Winblowz, I couldn't see them. They finally fixed that. Still, the site is now so cumbersome and time-consuming to load, that I gave up on Dilbert.
You guys are heading in that direction. You're taking a long walk on a short pier; be cautious.

GoComics.com has been remodeled and the new GoComics Beta makes its live debut today! Take a few minutes (after your eyes have adjusted to the freshly painted walls) to explore all the great new interactive features: Tag comics with relevant keywords Share comics with friends Make a Comment u...

I'm having a bad day. There, I said it. Details will not be forthcoming, but if you were wondering why I may seem like Captain Crankypants, now you know why. However, I still came across something that's so totally awesome, I thought I'd share with my usual enthusiasm: DailyLit sends you bite-si...

For those of you who were intrigued by my efforts to convince you to try Linux, I present the following links, which may be useful, intriguing, interesting, or some other adjective which implies that it's worth your time to check them out: Choosing the Right Linux Distribution (via Linux.com) In...

On Saturday night, I showed Anne the problem with Linux, in a nutshell. "Get it?" I said, "isn't that funny?" She gave me this blank look and said, "Is it funny because the Linux guy is trying to be a Stormtrooper?" This is one of the reasons I married her, and also one of the reasons I can't b...

On Saturday night, I showed Anne the problem with Linux, in a nutshell. "Get it?" I said, "isn't that funny?" She gave me this blank look and said, "Is it funny because the Linux guy is trying to be a Stormtrooper?" This is one of the reasons I married her, and also one of the reasons I can't b...

Though I really enjoy (and used to play) ice hockey, and enjoy soccer and baseball tremendously, I'm not a huge sports fan. I don't really live or die when teams win or lose, and until recently, I couldn't stand football. That all changed when I got HDTV. I can't quantify why, but football went ...

My partner and I said that the city government overreaccted. When I first saw the story on Keith Olbermann's Countdown, I thought, "over-react much?" Which were the exact words my partner used.
The city officials are all huffing and puffing over how this is such an outrage that Turner Broadcasting did this, but it was the CITY OFFCIALS who are going nuts over it! The populace at large probably didn't care much, since they'd been seeing the things for TWO WEEKS.
I wonder if those city officials will be voted out of office next election?

You know, the way the Media is behaving regarding the whole [adult swim] marketing deal in Boston is really pissing me off. The Media decided this thing was intended to be a terrorism hoax (when there is no evidence at all that's what it was) and now they're all howling for some terrible retribu...

When I want to tell people our place on the planet, I use the JPL Solar System Simulator and generate an image looking at the Sun from Voyager 1 with a 60 degree field of view. To see my current version, see http://www.llantup.com/voyager-1-2006-12-25.jpg
or go to http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ and create your own!

One of the main reasons I was so happy to calculate my mileage on planet Earth the other day, was it put things into perspective: while we're all busy kicking the shit out of each other (rhetorically and otherwise) in our little homes in our little cities in our little nations, our big planet is ...

I asked Ryan (the resident genius here in Chez Wheaton, where our motto is "Mathus is Hardus") what the formula was to find circumference of a circle if you know its diameter. "It's C = π⋅D" he said. "Thanks," I said, "I can't believe I forgot that." I got my calculator and put in 186000000 * ...

I asked Ryan (the resident genius here in Chez Wheaton, where our motto is "Mathus is Hardus") what the formula was to find circumference of a circle if you know its diameter. "It's C = π⋅D" he said. "Thanks," I said, "I can't believe I forgot that." I got my calculator and put in 186000000 * ...

Hey, Wil!
I hate to burst your bubble, but Earth is only an average of 93,000,000 miles from Sol. So the calculation would be 93000000 * 3.141592653589 (I love knowing Pi to twelve digits!) * 34 gives 9,933,715,970 miles that you've been on this ride.

I asked Ryan (the resident genius here in Chez Wheaton, where our motto is "Mathus is Hardus") what the formula was to find circumference of a circle if you know its diameter. "It's C = π⋅D" he said. "Thanks," I said, "I can't believe I forgot that." I got my calculator and put in 186000000 * ...

I went and did some research, and found the REAL story behind the peace sign. Go to DesignBoom and read about it. Here's a tiny exerpt:
the anti-nuclear emblem or the peace sign is one of the
most widely known symbols in the world.
it was invented on the request of lord bertrand russel,
head of the british ‘campaign for nuclear disarmament’
or CDN and sponsor of mass marches and sit-downs
in london. the graphic symbol was designed by
gerald holtom, a member of the CND movement,
as the badge of the ’direct action committee against
nuclear war’, for the first demonstration against
aldermaston (a british research center for the development
of nuclear weapons) in 1958. holtom, a professional designer
and a graduate of the london royal college of arts, had
originally considered using the christian cross symbol
within a circle as the motif for the march, but various priests
he had approached with the suggestion were not happy
at the idea of using the cross on a protest march.

Common sense prevails: A subdivision has withdrawn its threat of $25 daily fines against a homeowner who put a Christmas wreath shaped like a peace sign on the front of her home. Homeowner Lisa Jensen told The Associated Press Monday that the board of directors of the Loma Linda Homeowners Assoc...

They have to demonize something in order to keep their "troops" riled up.
Frankly, I think I see where lawmakers are trying to make more and more things illegal, so that there are more and more prisoners - and fewer voters. Remember:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
-- Martin Niemoeller

Oklahoma's State Senate unanimously passed a bill that would equate videogames like HALO and Grand Theft Auto 3 with hardcore pornography, making it a crime to sell those games to anyone under the age of eighteen: HB3004 seeks to amend an existing Oklahoma statute, and redefine what is considere...